QUESTION#1: What about your film excites you the most?: Watching Walter has been a labor of love from the beginning. To have been able to have told Walter's story in such a beautiful way, with such a beautiful script and in tandem with an incredible family of filmmakers has allowed us to fully translate that love from Walter's mouth to script to screen.

QUESTION#2: What is it about your current movie that will influence your next film?: Every film I direct provides new and valuable experiences in how I approach my next project. Watching Walter was a lesson in telling a big period piece story in a macro way, showing the audience what they needed to see, but allowing them to fill in the spaces outside the frame. I always trust my audiences to understand subtext, but this was a great exercise in visual storytelling that I'll for sure take to my next film.

QUESTION#3: When you’re shooting a film, do you think of time as something you capture or something you construct?: I liken shooting a film to capturing lightning in a bottle - you have a team of people that you know, love and trust from all backgrounds and experiences who have come together for the sole intention of combining this varied expertise into one incredible piece of film. Filmmaking is being able to gather these individual elements, harness that raw creative power, and blast it down from creative Olympus into 24 gorgeous frames per second. So no, I don't believe you can construct time in film, you can only gather the elements to capture it for the brief moments they're all aligned.

QUESTION#4: What’s a limitation you wish you had on your next shoot that would force you into making interesting creative decisions?: I love this question. I feel like we've got so many limitations on every shoot - not enough time, not enough money, big champagne ideas with beer money wallets. If I have to answer this question, I'd say that I love a good enclosed location. The limitation of physical space always forces you to make uniquely creative decisions that you might not have thought about otherwise, just to keep the shots interesting and meaningful. Other than that, the other limitation I wish for is that we don't know what to do with all the money we're being given to make the next film.

QUESTION#5: If a film shoot is like a living organism, which department do you think functions as its nervous system?: If a film shoot is a living organism, the nervous system would be comprised of the entire crew - from producers to PAs, directors to drivers, the functioning of a successful set is based on the sum of all parts working cohesively and collectively toward a common goal. Every crew member is a vital part of that system, and the system would quickly break down without any one individual - filmmaking is a team sport, not an individual event, and it's that collaboration I love so much!

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5Q's w/: Mitch Yapko "Watching Walter" Director, Producer